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Into the Bright Sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY)

Samuel G. Freedman

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century. During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein described it as a biography of Hubert Humphrey that follows him up to the 1948 Democratic Convention, emphasizing his work to embed a strong civilrights plank in the party platform.

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Since I just sort of alluded to Hubert Humphrey, I'm going to recommend first a great book, Into the Bright Sunshine, Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. It's by Samuel G. Friedman....

— Episode: The Real Danger Within the Democratic Pa...

Episode: The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a F...

Ezra Klein described it as a biography of Hubert Humphrey that follows him up to the 1948 Democratic Convention, emphasizing his work to embed a strong civilrights plank in the party platform.

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Since I just sort of alluded to Hubert Humphrey, I'm going to recommend first a great book, Into the Bright Sunshine, Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. It's by Samuel G. Friedman. And it is basically a biography of Hubert Humphrey up until the 1948 Democratic Convention, when he maneuvers with the Americans for Democratic Action to put a civilrights plank into the Democratic Party platform.

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